title: [Study of migratory grief in immigrant patients seen in primary care clinics. Presentation of a migratory grief evaluation questionnaire].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To validate a questionnaire designed to show the existence of migratory grief (MG) and its dimensions in the immigrant population, and to study its relationship with certain sociodemographic variables.
  
  
  METHODS
  A descriptive, cross-sectional, multicentre study.
  
  
  METHODS
  Consultations in Primary Health Care.
  
  
  METHODS
  The study included 290 Primary Health Care immigrant patients over 18-years old. There were 12 rejections due to, lack of time, absence of a translator, and lack of understanding.
  
  
  METHODS
  An MG questionnaire with 17 questions was employed, carrying out a factor analysis with final extraction of 4 factors explaining 52.1% of overall variance. Sociodemographic variables were collected: gender, age, marital status, nationality, social network, time in Spain, legal and work situation and communication difficulties. Multivariate analysis was performed using the sociodemographic variables.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Four factors were found (fear, homesickness, concern and loss of identity), showing that non-communality was < 0.30 and considering that the 4 factors represent the group of variables from the questionnaire. After analysing the correlations between the different factors, it was observed that concern is related to fear and homesickness, this latter being independent from fear. The loss of identity had a low correlation with other factors. Cronbach's alpha showed good consistency in factors 1, 2 and 3. Some sociodemographic variables are associated with the presence of each factor.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We present a validated instrument to study and characterise MG, adapted to study the different dimensions of the grief in immigrant population.
authors.affiliation: Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Nieves, Granada, España.
authors.forename: Luis
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: de la Revilla
authors.forename: Ana M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: de los Ríos Álvarez
authors.forename: Juan de Dios
authors.initials: Jde D
authors.lastname: Luna del Castillo
authors.forename: Mercedes
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gómez García
authors.forename: Carmen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Valverde Morillas
authors.forename: Ginesa
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: López Torres
mesh_terms: D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D054242:Emigrants and Immigrants / Q000523:psychology*; D006117:Grief; D006801:Humans; D011320:Primary Health Care; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires